There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

The less men think, the more they talk.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

To be truly great, begin to convert all your passing time into products. Begin to invest your time into your purpose and calling.

That's the way all life's battles are won.. You don't look at the overall picture. You take one step, then another, and another... until you arrive at your destination.

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

The synonyme of usury is ruin.

More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.